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(No Model.) J. W."S. NEAL. HANDLE FOR TOOLS.

No. 522,181. Patented June 26,1894.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT FFICEQ JOHN W. S. NEAL, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

HANDLE FOR TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,181, dated June 26, 1894.

Application filed April 10,1894. Serial No. 507,062. (No model.) Patented it Belgium August 19, 1893, No. 106.032; in France August 21, 1893,1I0. 232,297, and in EnglandNovember 30,1893,No. 23,024.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WILLIAM SHEP- HEARD NEAL, of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Tools and other Articles, (for which patents have been obtained as follows: in France, No.232,297, dated August 21, 1893; in Belgium, No. 106,032, dated August 19, 1893, and in England, No. 23,024, dated November 30, 1893;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is the production of a new or improved .hold-all handle, applicable to all kinds of hand-operated tools of whatever form they may be, fiat, square, round, oval and the like.

My invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a bent screw threaded rod with nuts thereon; Fig. 2 outline of hold-all or toolhandle with bent screw threaded rod and nuts; Fig. 3 drawing of hold-all, tool-handle with bent screw in position.

The handleshown in the drawingsis composed of a flat metal casting, preferably malleable iron, is of oval shape preferably perforated with the object of rendering it lighter for the hand; this piece is provided with a vertical slot (0), of a suitable length, above which there is a forked or grooved aperture (D), making a right angle on the inner side and an obtuse angle on the upper side with the handle (B), properly so called. The angle is obtuse on the upper side in order that the square plate (A) which slides in the groove (D), always tends to approach the handle (B). The square plate (A) is made with a hole in the center to allow one of the ends of the pressure rod (F) to pass through. In

' section the square plate is wedge shaped in.

such manner that its upper face presents an absolutely level surface to the pressure of the nut, the lower face however being adapted exactly to the slant of the upper groove in the fork (D). The pressure rod (F) is bent at a right angle and screw threaded at the two ends, one of which passes through the horizontal slot or fork (D), and through the hole boredin the square plate (A), resting thereon, while the other or lower end passes through the vertical slot (0); the wing nuts (H) are screwed on to the screw-threaded ends, and it will be easily understood that if a tool or other article is introduced into the space comprised between the four sides or angles of the pressure rod, the handle and the fork, the nuts can be screwed up or tightened in such a manner as to grip the tool or other article on all four sides at once, thus providing an absolutely fixed handle, whereby even broken tools can be conveniently utilized and rendering all lateral movement between the parts impossible. The apertures or slots in which the pressure rod works, can be both open at one end, or both closed, or one open and one closed as shown. .The square plate (A) forming the bed for the upper nut may be dlspensed with, the upper surface of fork belng, in the latter case, at right angles to the handle, but it should be made preferably as above described. I reserve to myself the right of making my new or improved hold-allhandles' of any metals or other suitable material and in any shapes or dimensions as required.

Having now particularly described the sa1d invention, what I claim is- 1. In a tool holder, the body portion (B) having a slot (0) formed therein and the grooved or forked projection (D) in combination with each end, one end of which passes through the slot (0) and the other end in the slot in the projection (D), together with the nuts (H) one upon each end of said rod whereby the tool or implement can be securely fastened between said rod and the body portion substantially as set forth.

2.111 a'tool holder, the body portion (B) having a slot (C) formed therein and the grooved or forked projection (D) in combination with the bent rod (F) screw threaded at each end, one end of which passes through the slot (0) and the other end in the slot in the projection (D),together with the nuts (H), one upon each end of said rod whereby the tool or implement can be securely fastened between said rod and the body portion together with a square plate (A) forming a base for the upper nut (H) Wedge-shaped in the verthe bent rod (F) screw-threaded at tical cross-section and placed with thelarger In testimony whereof I have signed the base downward, and which by always having specification in the presence of two subscriba tendency to slide down the groove toward ing witnesses.

the handle proper (B) gives automatically a J. W. S. NEAL. 5 more even grip to the tool or other article held \Vitnesses:

in the above named holder substantially as H. A. LORD,

set forth. A. J. FLACK. 

